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Editorial Reviews
Reuters
For city kids, there's nothing like a farm. Two new videos for children show the ins and outs of life on a farm and help kids understand where their food comes from. “Farming for Kids” and “Dairy Farming for Kids” are both 30-minute videos that use the noise and live action of the farm to attract children's attention while farmer Bill explains about agriculture.
"Farming for Kids" looks at the different phases of a typical growing season, including planting, cultivating, and harvesting. Dairy Farming for Kids" looks at the different activities that take place on a dairy farm, including feeding the herd, a visit to the veterinarian, seeing a newborn calf, milking and a trip to the cheese plant. The videos are designed for children 2-10.
Booklist magazine (American Library Association)
Vrrrooommm! Farming for Kids is a great crossover title for fans of both farm life and big trucks. The focus here is on the unusual vehicles and equipment that are used in modern farming. Farmer Bill guides viewers through a season on a vegetable farm, while footage follows the tractor driven machines that till the soil, plant and fertilize the seeds, cultivate the growing plants, and harvest the field crops. An affable host, just enough commentary, and some great shots make this an engaging farm visit.
School Library Journal
The uses of various types of farm equipment are presented in this informative live-action video that will satisfy the curiosity of young farm enthusiasts. Bill, the farmer, asks the question, "Where do vegetables come from?" and proceeds to answer it by briefly discussing the different pieces of farm equipment and how each helps to bring food to the table. Preparation of the soil, as well as planting and harvesting are demonstrated. Wheat, corn, cabbages, beans, and carrots are harvested. Each vegetable has its own farm implement. Pumpkins, which close the video, are one of the few crops still harvested the "old fashioned" way -- picked by human hands. Film footage is sharp and clear, and different angles are used throughout. Farmer Bill's friendly explanations are brief, letting each piece of equipment demonstrate for itself. This well-done production would be a good addition to your video library.
Lakeland FL Ledger
"Vegetables come from the ground!" exclaimed one 3 1/2 year old, after watching this video. Since such a simple idea will probably come as a revelation to many young kids, this video might well be a good introduction to some of the mysteries of just where that carrot comes from and how it gets from the ground to their dinner table.
The video uses plenty of farm equipment to grab kids' attention -- you'll see numerous scenes of tractors, combines, harvesters and various other machines roaring their way across the fields (there's a separate reference card that identifies them). As the video follows the growing season on a 7,000-acre family farm, "Farmer Bill" talks to viewers about agriculture, focusing on such topics as planting, cultivating and harvesting. We see the way wheat, corn, beans, carrots and cabbage are grown, harvested, and even if you can't follow is all, enough will sink in to let viewers know that cabbage definitely does not grow in plastic wrapping in the supermarket. Several children were definitely interested enough to watch it a second time!
Video Librarian
In case you had any doubts, "milk doesn't grow on trees," as one mother reminds her offspring. Milk is born in a cow, as viewers will learn in “Vrrrooommm 2 - Dairy Farming for Kids.” Bill, the onscreen host, visits the Coyne Farm in upstate New York, where individual cows chow down 100 lbs. per diem of the harvested hay/corn mix and chew their cud – basically a coughed up food ball – between 45-50 times before swallowing (Emily Post would, no doubt, approve). We follow milk's journey from cow's udder to, in this case, packaged cheese, and get a glimpse of cow maintenance on the farm (a cow getting her toenails clipped is truly a sight to behold). While farming videos are a dime a dozen, this one's recommended as a decent addition.
Billboard
Slurping a milkshake or having cookies and milk may never be the same for children after they view this story of how milk gets from the stable to the table. Congenial farmer Bill, who also hosts Rainbow Communications’ companion “Farming for Kids” tape, leads this live action couch trip to a dairy farm that touches on everything from the fields where the grain is grown to make feed for the dairy cows to demonstrations of winning milking techniques to the pasteurization process. There's lots of cool farming equipment and intriguing sights and sounds and, of course, a full cast of cows.
Video Business
In this installment of the Vrrrooommm! series, kids can learn all about how milk and dairy products make it to the supper table. Led by a friendly farmer, Dairy Farming for Kids takes little ones step-by-step through the surprisingly interesting process of raising, feeding and milking dairy cows, including how the milk is transported and made into cheese. Along the way, the program features neat factoids (cows eat 100 pounds of food a day) and cute animals (one little kitten gets some milk straight from the source). Although it's a little canned and a lot corny, Dairy Farming's simple structure, genuine folks and fast clip should keep kids-and adults-entertained.
Reuters
For city kids, there's nothing like a farm. Two new videos for children show the ins and outs of life on a farm and help kids understand where their food comes from. “Farming for Kids” and “Dairy Farming for Kids” are both 30-minute videos that use the noise and live action of the farm to attract children's attention while farmer Bill explains about agriculture.
“Farming for Kids” looks at the different phases of a typical growing season, including planting, cultivating, and harvesting. “Dairy Farming for Kids” looks at the different activities that take place on a dairy farm, including feeding the herd, a visit to the veterinarian, seeing a newborn calf, milking and a trip to the cheese plant. The videos are designed for children 2-10.
Family Fun Magazine
The third video in a series of behind-the-scenes farming films, Vrrrooommm 3 - Apple Farming for Kids will make your kids apple experts. The steps necessary to bring the fruit from the lush orchards to your table are fascinating. Your kids will learn that apples go through a careful inspection before being mushed into sauce or cider. They'll also see that nothing is wasted: even the cores and peels are squeezed to make vinegar.
Crayola Kids Magazine
Fall is the season to enjoy sweet, crunchy apples and delicious cider. But do you know where all those yummy apples come from? In “Vrrrooommm 3 - Apple Farming for Kids” you'll visit an apple farm in New York State. You'll follow right along with Farmer Bill to watch the apple trees blossom and bear fruit. It's fun to see all the equipment the farmers use, and you'll be amazed at how those farm-grown apples get to the supermarket or to the apple "factory," where they're made into things like dried apples and pie filling. And if you live in a state where apples are grown, you might even be inspired to visit an orchard with your family, where you pick your own apples.
Video Librarian Magazine
Have you ever wondered where that apple in your lunchbox came from? Was it from the same place as the apple juice in your thermos? This fun and informative video traces the journey of an apple from pollination to grocery store, with all the stops in between. Not only do we get an inside look at an apple farm, but we also see how all those neat conveyor belts and gadgets in fruit processing factories work. The editing choices are a bit odd -- we bounce back and forth between the factory and the orchards out of chronology, and the end includes a bunch of kids running around a farm for no apparent reason other than to look cute. However, the overall production value is high – great camera angles, music bites, and quality narration from a friendly host.
Sesame Street Parents Magazine
Grab your sunglasses and fasten your seat belts: the fourth installment in the popular "Vrrrooommm" live-action farming series transports viewers down to sunny Florida. There, Farmer Bill shows how oranges and grapefruits are grown, harvested and squeezed into juice. The video combines orchard scenes with footage from inside a factory that produces 187,500 gallons of juice a day. Your curious preschooler will get a kick out of discovering how the orange juice on her breakfast table got there.
Video Librarian Magazine
Children will learn all about citrus fruits from this colorful informative video. The story goes from the tree to the table -- planting, grove maintenance, harvesting, processing and packing. The information is very thorough but conveyed in simple enough terms for young children to understand. There is a nice mix of farming clips, school children and music to hold viewer attention. The video can be used for farming as well as nutrition units. This is the next best thing to a trip to a citrus grove.
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